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I missed Just Looking
during its limited 1999 theatrical release, and only discovered it last
year. It's making the rounds on the movie channels again, and
it's a go-to movie for
me. Meaning, I have a hard time passing it by, or go to it just
for the sheer joy of it. Jason Alexander directed.
The beginning scenes may portend just another coming of age movie, and
it is that, but the character development takes you to unexpected
places. I love it. Can a hard edged commando assassin agent say
"it's sweet?" No, he cannot. So I'll say it's evocative.
Just looking for this ...
Who knows the name of the movie, I think based on fact, about a 15
year-old boy whom older women find irresistible. It's a
comedy set during WWII. The boy eventually marries one of
the women, and goes on the lam to evade the truant officers, so to
speak. When his wife is brought to trial for contributing to a
minor, it's suggested that the key to his prowess is found in his
britches. I haven't seen it in 15 years, and can't find it by
search methods I've tried. Thanks.
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Have you seen Summer of '42?
ReplyDeleteDuring his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing a contradictorily innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.
Not sure if you found what you are looking for; but I'll throw this up on the wall...
ReplyDeletethe woo woo kid?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093253/
While we're at it, there was a cold war-era movie made in an iron curtain country (Romania, maybe) about a retiring civil servant and a beauty pageant, except the lights go out and all of the gifts and prizes get stolen.
ReplyDeleteA great spoof of communism, but I never got the title.
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ReplyDeleteTom Mann found it too ...
The WOO WOO KID
Thanks
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@ rockville: Perhaps you are thinking of "The Firemen's Ball" by Milos Forman? Here is the Wikipedia link:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firemen%27s_Ball
Regards, Paul
Yes, that's it.
ReplyDeleteThanks.